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Mar 2025
56m 34s

How To Know Whether You’re an Introvert ...

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Why knowing your tendency can improve your life.

Susan Cain is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. Her Kindred Letters newsletter is read by people in all 193 countries and all 50 American states. Join her at TheQuietLife.net.

In this episode we talk about:

  • How to know if you’re an introvert or extrovert
  • The strengths of introversion – and how these can you no matter where you are on the introvert / extrovert spectrum 
  • Techniques to improve your relationships and work life 
  • How to design your life around where you do your best – including figuring out your true goals
  • The perks of exposing ourselves to the things we fear the most
  • The paradox of anxiety and shyness
  • And why introverts and extraverts often get along so well—something Susan calls “introvert/extrovert synergy”

 

 

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